LANDSENSE

Coupling citizen science and earth observation data to promote environmental monitoring

Inian Moorthy, Linda See, Gebhard Banko, Sofia Capellan, Vladimir Mrkajic, Ana-Maria Olteanu-Raimond, Elizabeth A. Schrammeijer, Michael Schultz, Matej Batič, Steffen Fritz

Center for Earth Observation & Citizen Science International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

@LandSense Landsense.eu Motivation LandSense 2016 – 2020

Improving the quality of Earth Observation (EO)-based Land Use & 18 partners Land Cover (LULC) maps/products 9 countries

Transforming the conventional top-down approach to EO-based monitoring 20+ journal publications Leveraging citizen science and 70+ crowdsourcing methods to engage dissemination events people in environmental monitoring & 5+ stewardship open access datasets

The project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 https://zenodo.org/communities/landsense/ research and innovation programme under grant agreement no 689812 LandSense Pilots LandSense technologies are deployed across various themes to illustrate the potential of citizen observatories to tackle environmental challenges

Urban Landscape Dynamics

Heidelberg

Vienna

Agricultural Land Use Toulouse Vojvodina

Spain

Flores Island, Forest & Habitat Indonesia Amsterdam Park Promoting sustainable urban development with 125+ 375+ citizen insights on the perceptions of green and participants observations open spaces Toulouse – LULC Dynamics Integrating expert contributions using crowdsourcing 130+ 7500+ approaches into LULC authoritative databases participants observations

Dataset 1: Sentinel 2 change detection validation 2019 Dataset 2: Land use classification 2019 Dataset 3: In-situ validation 2018 Vojvodina Leveraging the power of EO systems and crowdsourcing 181 2850+ to deliver value added service to farmers participants observations

Phase 1: Two high schools & University of Novi Sad

Crop Support Spain Monitoring threats to biodiversity with a focus of 40+ 450+ Important Bird & Biodiversity Areas (IBAs) & Natura participants observations 2000 sites Volunteers → IBA Caretakers → National Coordinators

https://natura-alert.net/ LANDSENSE MAPATHON Connecting citizens and satellite data for land use mapping across the EU

Contribute now! https://landsense.eu/Mapathon

@LandSense #EURegionsWeek #territorialdata LANDSENSE

Coupling citizen science and earth observation data to promote environmental monitoring

Inian Moorthy, Linda See, Gebhard Banko, Sofia Capellan, Vladimir Mrkajic, Ana-Maria Olteanu-Raimond, Elizabeth A. Schrammeijer, Michael Schultz, Matej Batič, Steffen Fritz

Center for Earth Observation & Citizen Science International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

@LandSense Landsense.eu https://zenodo.org/communities/landsense/